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 Once,
thriving American Indian trade communities of Tiwa and Tompiro speaking
Puebloans inhabited this remote frontier area of central New Mexico. Early
in the 17th-century Spanish Franciscans found the area ripe for their
missionary efforts. However, by the late 1670s the entire Salinas District,
as the Spanish had named it, was depopulated of both Indian and Spaniard.
What remains today are austere yet beautiful reminders of this earliest
contact between Pueblo Indians and Spanish Colonials: the ruins of four
mission churches, at Quarai, Abó, and Gran Quivira and the partially
excavated pueblo of Las Humanas or, as it is known today, Gran Quivira.
Established in 1980 through the combination of two New Mexico State Monuments
and the former Gran Quivira National Monument, the present Monument comprises
a total of 1,100 acres.
Operating Hours & Seasons
Daily-summer hours
(Memorial Day - Labor Day): 9:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. Winter hours (rest of
the year): 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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| Communities
Surrounding Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument | |
| Note: The times listed below are approximate driving times to the park. | Claunch, NM (22 min.
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Mountainair, NM (46 min.
) Pop. 1,116
Corona, NM (52 min.
) Pop. 165
Willard, NM (59 min.
) Pop. 240
| Coyote, NM (1 hr.
4 min.
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Luna, NM (1 hr.
5 min.
) Pop. 25,016
Estancia, NM (1 hr.
10 min.
) Pop. 1,584
Torreon, NM (1 hr.
16 min.
) Pop. 297
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